Baku / 05.11.18 / Turan: Armenia intends to nominate ex-Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan for the vacant position of the CSTO Secretary General. However, the rest of the CSTO members intend to endorse the representative of Belarus, Stanislav Zasya, in this post. Finally, this issue will be resolved on November 8 at the ODKSB summit in Astana. According to Radio Liberty, official Yerevan seeks to retain this post in place of the dismissed Yuri Khachaturov. On November 2 Khachaturov was dismissed after a lawsuit was filed against him in Armenia. -02D-
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A court in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan has sentenced blogger Azamat Sarsenov to a 10-day detention for filming the crash site of an Embraer 190 passenger plane in Aktau. The ruling was confirmed by the court's press service, according to reports from RBC.
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The families of those killed in the crash of the AZAL passenger plane “Embrayer-190” will be paid compensation in the amount of 40 thousand manats (about 24 thousand dollars).
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On 26 December, Ramzan Kadyrov awarded his nephew Khamzat Kadurov, who holds the post of secretary of the Chechen Security Council, with the medal "For Services to the Chechen Republic".
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The Russian side must apologize for the air defense attack on the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft, said Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabeyov.
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